halfmatthalfcat

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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
What's the point of using Typescript if everything is typed as any or provides no types at all (as demonstrated in the article)?
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
Yeah, the non-technical founder essentially handed the idea off to the technical founder and was like "hey, here's an idea, if it makes money, throw me some equity". They don't want to participate or be involved in any m
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
Yeah, I want them compensated in some way but I feel like anything more then 10% is way too much. They're of the type that they simply want to sit back and "get rich" but aren't technically-minded and I get the sense tha
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Ask HN: New startup, how much equity for the idea
6 points by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago|9 comments
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Ever left a company because of tech stack direction?
3 points by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago|2 comments
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
Not sure I would frame these restaurant owners as indecent because a lot of them are locally owned and just trying to survive. You can make an argument that they shouldn't be in business at all but for a lot of people this is their liv
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
It handles everything I throw at it (Scala/Akka/Node, Docker, Discord, Slack, Million Chrome Tabs, ect etc etc)
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
You're suggesting one out of tens of thousands of restaurants in the US. I don't need one example, I need an overwhelming body of evidence that paying your employees a livable wage means you can stay competitive. I'm talking
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
I still have a Late 2012 Mac Mini i7 and it runs great. Upgraded the RAM to 16GB and put in an SSD, runs like a dream. Would definitely look at upgrading if the newer ones were compelling enough.
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
Putting it on the employer is lazy. The employer has to stay competitive, especially in competitive markets like NYC. They're playing on the same playing field as all the others in the same industry, which means paying employees shitty
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by halfmatthalfcat 8y ago
My girlfriend, whose worked in the service industry for the last 5 years, would vehemently disagree with you. If she doesn't get at least 20%, it's more or less an offensive amount _because_ they get paid so little because of this